Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
threap .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To call; to term.
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- verb obsolete to
threap - verb archaic to
call , toterm - verb archaic to
insist
Etymologies
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Middle English threp ("a rebuke"), deverbal of Middle English threpen ("to scold"), from Old English þrēapian ("to reprove, reprehend, punish, blame"), from Proto-Germanic *þraupōnan (“to punish”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawō (“torment, punishment”), from Proto-Germanic *þrawēnan (“to torment, injure, exhaust”), from Proto-Indo-European *trōw- (“to beat, wound, kill, torment”). Akin to Old English þrēagan ("to rebuke, punish, chastise"), þrēa ("correction, punishment"), þrōwian ("to suffer"). More at throe. See also threap.
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Examples
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She wad threpe (insist) 'at I bude to hae keepit some o' the duds 'at happit Ma'colm MacPhail the reprobat, whan first he cam to the Seaton -- a puir scraichin' brat, as reid 's a bilet lobster.
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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I s 'be at the boddom o' 't wi 'whaever daur threpe me sic a lee!'
Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864
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-- But he never said it, and ye needna try to threpe it upo 'me!' she added, in a tone that showed the very idea too painful.
Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864
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